She pleaded guilty in December 2010 to helping the association's president, Sean Alfortish, and her sister-in-law, Mona Romero, who was the association's executive director at the time, get Alfortish reelected as president with a more supportive board.

Cricket Romero admitted that she helped Alfortish and Romero identify which members of the association were likely not to vote, and then made airplane reservations for herself, her sister-in-law and another co-conspirator to fly to the cities where those non-voters lived, including Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington, Ky., Houston, Dallas and Tampa, Fla. Finally, she admitted that she mailed falsified ballots from those locations.

With Cricket Romero's promise to testify, prosecutors were able to get Mona Romero and Alfortish to plead guilty this summer.